There are plenty of ways to write bad stuff in recommendation letters that hiring managers will pick up on, without it sounding negative for the employee.

Showing off for the audience - spinning on a strait :P

I’m 51. I have former uni friends and colleagues working everywhere in this region. If an applicant claims to have worked at X during Y it’s not that difficult to ask someone who was at that company at the same time and go from there.

The phoniest reference was at our US office where I got fooled (since I didn’t have a network there to go and ask) when I hired someone for a devops position who turned out to know absolutely nothing about devops. That “former colleague” reference I spoke to was lying their ass off. After a while we managed to figure out that it was the person’s partner who did all the work from home, whilst themselves also working another job.

All RTO mandates are about firing people without saying it loud for the financial markets.

I’ve been a hiring manager and have had plenty of people handing in phony references.

(It’s illegal in the EU for an employer to go trawling a candidate’s social media btw)

I dated a 20 year old when I was 34.

I often hear I’m “not like my friends’ parents” from my own kids now that I’m 51.

No one has to become like their own parents just because they get older. As long as it’s something that you do because it’s who you are instead of trying to act younger - where it just becomes cringe - that’s “your age”.

/GenX: We just don’t gaf.

https://www.iplocation.net/ip-lookup

Seems to be France.

Is there news since this?

https://globalnews.ca/news/11619650/carney-mulls-board-of-peace-seat-trump-putin/

It’s the norm in parts of the Swedish public healthcare sector - where contact information itself is public. In the private sector less so, usually the applicant supplies their own references which we’ll then happily ignore and try to find colleagues and even previous managers to contact ourselves to get the true picture.

Great question! Yes, it’s from ignorance. Older Europeans still live in the “behind the iron curtain” mentality where we “know” everything’s underdeveloped with an oppressed and ignorant populace. For some countries this has started to change, but I’m sure even Poles can attest to it still being the case.

The average knowledge on the difference between Belarus - Russia - Ukraine has increased a lot since 2022, but in 2020 I was asked by my CEO to create a new development office and I realized most people in the company had no idea what the difference was between the top two choices Belarus vs Poland (I went with Poland).

Sincere apologies for our ignorance.

/Swede, who housed a Ukrainian refugee family for a year before they went back. The mother was in IT but could not get any jobs in Sweden although she tried really hard. The daughter immediately excelled in school and found it to be at a way easier level than school in Ukraine.

You’re correct - but we don’t have a way to make it invisible. A lot of people don’t have enough money to set aside even small - visible - amounts for this. Ads work since they don’t - visibly - pay anything.

Bluesky is like X. Owned by american venture capitalists. EU needs something for official communication that’s neither under US nor under commercial control.

I agree. We should just stop using them. If all official accounts within the EU move to Mastodon, journalists and people will follow. Additionally, that supports the EU economy.

Idiots can stay on X. Enjoy.

Maybe the kid has ADHD level 2 and the parents are doing absolutely everything humanly possible already?

/parent to a level 2 ADHD kid

I have no servers that accept external password-login. All use SSH keys.

If you mean the apps you run on the servers, many can use an OAUTH server that you then host for SSO.

check couch/pillows

Looking at the image another question immediately arises: Do non-AI generated women still exist?

syac: It’s done by jamming GPS in all the areas where there are Starlink tranceivers. Without GPS they don’t find the satellites and stops working.

I mean if Musk wants to take the fight to reclassify nonconsensual AI nudes as “free speech” he’s welcome. The result might not be what he wishes for though.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/146

“nuclear-capable” here is part of Russian psy-ops. Another way to frame it is that they are wasting their possible nuclear capable launch systems (of which they have few working) to deliver dumb kinetic payloads.

One explanation could be that they know their nuclear weapons don’t work since they haven’t been propely maintained.